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The Weekend Stream: August 23, 2025

August 23, 2025 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We’ve got the goods from everywhere this week: the Jersey shore, Philadelphia, Manhattan, jolly old England and a spooky, nondescript European countryside! Bruce Springsteen, “Lonely Night in the Park” (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) If you’re still digesting Tracks II or are prepping for the inevitable Nebraska revival brought on by this fall’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, spare a moment for the impending 50th anniversary of The Boss’ mainstream breakthrough Born to Run (which…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bruce Springsteen, Danny Elfman, David Yazbek, Nat King Cole, Oasis, Phil Collins, Ronan Keating, Talking Heads, The Doors, The Hooters

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2019 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Earwig Music has one of the year’s most intriguing box sets and most significant historical excavations – a beautiful 124-page, 4-CD hardcover tome chronicling in words and music the story of Narvel Eatmon, a.k.a. Cadillac Baby, and his Chicago label Bea & Baby Records. From 1959-1989, the label and its various imprints (among them Key, Keyhole, Miss, and Ronald) championed the Windy City music scene with an…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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David Yazbek, Lionel Richie, Peter Paul and Mary, Rodney Crowell, The Ides of March, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from the autumn of 1975. The box includes five professionally recorded sets…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Many a New Day: Decca Broadway Relaunches Label with “Oklahoma!,” “Tootsie”

April 17, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

If any single album could be said to have given birth to the concept of the original Broadway cast recording as we know it, that album would be Decca Records’ 1943 preservation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! with its original stars Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, and Celeste Holm. Decca’s Jack Kapp envisioned a release that would allow listeners across the nation to take Oklahoma! to their own homes, a true souvenir album that captured the energy and excitement of the smash production and featured its original cast members and orchestrations as opposed…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings

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David Yazbek, Rodgers and Hammerstein